I’ve recently gotten to really like tiling window managers. I started with dwm, which I still use on my old old laptop for performance’s sake. On my fast laptop, I’m currently using wmii. Once in awhile, though, I feel the need to run gnome. I.e. to play with syncing with Ubuntu One. I’ve gotten to hate moving windows around, though. So I looked for a few of the ways to add tiling to metacity. I’ve settled upon stiler, plus a minor patch of my own. I’ve added the following keybindings to gnome:

That’s it. Now I can pretty much treat it like dwm. Pull up two or three terminals, hit alt-enter, and they line up just right. Alt-j and Alt-k move between the windows, and another alt-enter switches the main with the selected window.

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I just used the Keyboard Shortcuts editor from the gnome menu. Don’t have that laptop with me this week, sorry, or I’d probably be able to query it.

The new unity desktop uses compiz, which stiler unfortunately doesn’t work with by default, because it places all the desktops on one huge grid. Should be near trivial to fix, but I haven’t done it yet, so I’m not using stiler at the moment.

maybe I’ll aim to fix that tonight on my netbook, and then I should be able to answer your question too.